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Corruption Around the World : Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures
Tanzi, Vito - 2006
Corruption is attracting a lot of attention around the world. The paper surveys and discusses issues related to the … causes, consequences, and scope of corruption and possible corrective actions. It emphasizes the costs of corruption in terms … of economic growth. It also emphasizes that the fight against corruption may not be cheap and cannot be independent from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782308
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A Proposal for a Public Sector Ethics Infrastructure
McKoy, Derrick V. - 2007
Public sector corruption misapplies resources, increases poverty and discourages investment. Corruption, and … allegations of corruption, also weakens democratic institutions. This paper sets out a scheme for a Public Sector Ethics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053623
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Corruption and the shadow economy
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2003
This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506202
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The revolving door indicator : estimating the distortionary power of the revolving door
Brezis, Elise S.; Cariolle, Joel - 2014
The "revolving door" phenomenon has become very common in most industrialised countries, and is leading to conflicts of interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of the revolving door - The Revolving Door Indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459790
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Corruption and the shadow economy
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2002
This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408719
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The economics of repeated extortion
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2003
This paper provides a simple model of repeated extortion. In particular, we ask whether corrupt government officials' ex post opportunism to demand more once entrepreneurs have made sunk investments entails further distortion in resource allocations. We show that the inability of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507749
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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals : With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector
Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2005
We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. We first pose the problem in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data covering 130 years), and by taking up the challenge to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061622
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Live free or bribe: On the causal dynamics between economic freedom and corruption in U.S. states
Apergis, Nicholas; Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Payne, James E. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 2, pp. 215-226
We investigate the relationship between economic freedom and corruption using data from U.S. states covering almost a …-country corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use a more objective measure of corruption: the number of … government officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second, unlike previous studies, we exploit both time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574391
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State Corroding Federalism
Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - 2007
Competition among local governments in a decentralized political system is often thought to discipline lazy or corrupt officials, improving public good provision and increasing welfare. Some scholars note possible distortions due to spillovers or a race-to-the-bottom, but suggest that central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070526
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The dynamics of corruption with the Ratchet effect
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2001
This paper provides a simple model of corruption dynamics with the ratchet effect. Corrupt officials have ex post the … decrease. We also explore the effect of the official's tenure stability on the extent of corruption. This allows us to identify … circumstances under which the often observed practice of job rotation can help mitigate corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507022